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Trade Unions

[1989 Ed.

"funds", in relation to a trade union or a branch of a trade union, or a trade union federation, includes money, whether in an electoral or welfare fund or not, and all other property or assets, whether real or personal, held, collected, received or controlled by or on behalf of the trade union or the branch of the trade union or the trade union federation, as the case may be; (Amended 47 of 1988 s. 2)

"injury", for the purposes of Part VII, includes injury to a person in respect of his business, occupation, employment or other source of income, and includes any actionable wrong;

"intimidation", for the purposes of Part VII, means to cause in the mind of a person a reasonable apprehension of injury to himself or to any member of his family or to any of his dependants or of violence or damage to any person or property;

"lock-out" means the closing of a place of employment, or the suspension of work, or the refusal by an employer to continue to employ any number of persons employed by him in consequence of a dispute, done with a view to compelling those persons, or to aiding another employer in compelling persons employed by him, to accept terms or conditions of or affecting employment;

"officer", in relation to a trade union or a branch of a trade union or a trade union federation, includes any member of the executive thereof, but does not include an auditor;

"paid staff" in relation to a trade union or a branch of a trade union or a trade union federation, means a clerk or other person appointed by, and acting under the instructions of, the executive thereof and paid from the funds of the trade union or the branch of the trade union or the trade union federation, as the case may be; (Added 18 of 1977 s. 2)

"register" means the register of trade unions to be maintained by the Registrar in accordance with section 4;

"registered" means registered under this Ordinance;

"registered office", in relation to a trade union or a branch of a trade union or a trade union federation, means the office, if any, which is registered under this Ordinance as the head office thereof;

"Registrar" means the Registrar of Trade Unions appointed under section 3;

"strike" means the cessation of work by a body of persons employed acting in combination, or a concerted refusal, or a refusal under a common understanding, of any number of persons employed, to continue to work for an employer in consequence of a dispute, done as a means of compelling their employer or the employer of any other person or body of persons, or any person or body of persons employed, to accept or not to accept terms or conditions of or affecting employment;

"strike benefit" means any financial or other benefit given by a trade union to any member of the trade union in consideration of a strike or lock-out;

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